Example sentences of "went off [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first went off at two a.m last Friday.It caused little damage to British Home Stores . |
| 2 | The birds went off at noisy full-throttle , right through a herd of deer which had been grazing quietly till then . |
| 3 | We were talking till about three and then there was three of us who stayed awake longer , Then som the alarm went off at six thirty cos someone had a newspaper round . |
| 4 | I 's got I woke , my alarm went off at nine thirty this morning , I thought shall I get up I thought no , better not |
| 5 | Where before he went off at obtuse tangents , now he takes the songs where he wants them to go rather than let them control him . |
| 6 | The TV went off at 10.30 . |
| 7 | Mountbatten missed Charles enormously when he went off on long trips and felt lonely and deprived without his increasingly regular visits . |
| 8 | Every day the Prince and Princess went off on official business , to look at churches , visit hospitals and meet people , and the minute they were back on board the royal yacht , Charles would quickly change into some comfortable clothes and sit on deck with his sketchbook and teacher , until the very last minute before the bell for dinner . |
| 9 | I decided doubles was getting short-shrifted so went off on that tangent . |
| 10 | The attack began when incendiary bombs went off on two floors of a museum in Shrewsbury Castle , Shropshire — causing £250,000 damage and destroying many irreplaceable relics of three famous regiments . |
| 11 | Bombs went off on six beaches at once . |
| 12 | While transit passengers went off on local tours , Ellerman & Bucknall were busy co-ordinating the delivery of 80 tons of supplies and 2,500 tons of fuel to be taken on board . |
| 13 | It makes me cough a bit because when I came on the scene he was the one academically everything and she was the one who was academically rather disadvantaged but she , she was , you know , no not having the greatest of , of , of success but erm it was said that she would n't be able to be a student nurse because she was n't bright enough but you know she clocked up the O levels and A levels like guide badges and she went off on this pre-nursing course in South Notts you know and she was in and out of the Queens on a course and people and , you know , and she said I do n't know all the answers but I 've a rough idea about some of the questions , I want to be a nurse and off she went to , to , to Walsall and I 'm not saying she 's a brilliant student nurse but erm absolutely clear that she 's better than some of the others . |
| 14 | If he went off with one of his girls he felt sure she would find someone to disappear with . |
| 15 | A man was walking past the girls across the street , looking at and talking to them in turn ; then he went off with one of them . |
| 16 | Mum went off with all her friends to McDonald 's afterwards for coffee . |
| 17 | The Corporal fired another burst and then he went off with two Commandos to find out the result . |
| 18 | ‘ He just upped and went off with that posh woman . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , no wonder he went off with that girl , ’ said Betty . |
| 20 | She went off with this bloke from the garage . |
| 21 | Aj went off with three of our number to do a bit of lakeside revetment and we others set to with a will , clearing away the undergrowth alongside the path in readiness for the red shale . |
| 22 | She 's the Librarian at Broadmoor , last week she went off with three thousand pounds up to er |
| 23 | Impatiently , she said , ‘ When you went off with those papers , there was something you left behind . |
| 24 | Your mother went off with another man . |
| 25 | She 's had three boyfriends with normal sight and hearing but says : ‘ The last one went off with another girl with normal sight and hearing . |
| 26 | Cos she went off with another chap |
| 27 | He came forward warily and took the coin she offered and then he went off to one of the stables to fetch the horse and cart . |
| 28 | Yeah , cos Michael 's name went off to that batch that was sent out . |
| 29 | The BMA called a press conference on the emigration of doctors an hour beforehand , half the journalists went off to that , and the fierce women sent along by the pressure groups whom I had invited to liven up the occasion terrorised the few press men who remained into almost complete silence . |
| 30 | Brian rarely took holidays , but most years Jean went off to such exotic spots as the Maldive Islands , the Seychelles or St Lucia . |